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PRN is suing Wal-Mart Stores inc. in the San Francisco superior court, case # CGC-09-489483 We don’t think that PRN would have filed suit unless they REALLY felt betrayed by Wal-Mart. This could perhaps be the biggest story of the year thus far in the Digital Out-of-Home industry in North America.

Congratulations to ONELAN who have been recognised by Deloitte for the third year running in their fastest growing technology company rankings in the UK, being placed 40th nationally and 8th regionally.

Retail Week has reported ‘Retailers in line for £20m in-store music refund‘ after a legal victory that increased copyright fees imposed by Public Performance Limited (PPL) back in 2005 for playing music in-store was deemed excessive. We believe that the massive increase in fees had actually stopped many retailers broadcasting more complex channels (the license […]

On Tuesday in Munich I chaired the first face to face meeting of the OVAB Europe DBCI Advisory Panel which last week reported for the second time (it’s a quarterly survey process) as to the health of the DOOH industry. The answer for those of you who wish to know was 39! Shown here from […]

We could happily write stories about content companies winning deals each and every day. Whether it be with some of our personal favourites such as BlueFox, Doohstuff, Iconic Images or ScreenFeed it is proof positive that the eco-system around our industry is booming and that the content suppliers are providing a much needed service. Here […]

Earlier this week Kinetic announced the appointment of Carolyn Nugent to the position of UK Head of Digital. This post follows of course the appointment of Dennis Kuperus earlier this month to Digital Director EMEA and is obviously part of a wider strategic push by the company into Digital Out of Home. Carolyn will report […]

The recent announcement of GDS’s involvement with UK based street furniture / enclosure manufacturer BF Group will we are sure be spun many ways – the term ‘merger’ that we heard was bandied about first of all was the one that made us laugh out loud the most. In the official press release however Derek […]

In a move towards cementing their position as the UK’s fastest growing DOOH media platform, atmAd have appointed Justin Stark as Head of Media Sales. Justin brings with him more than 12 years media experience to atmAd, including eight years at CBS Outdoor, leading the multi award-winning creative solutions sales division, Impact. Justin told us […]

Neo Advertising Italy recently announced a partnership with CBS Outdoor under which CBS will sell media advertising across Neo’s two networks in Italy. Neo Advertising are to offer their technical know-how and their two Italian digital signage networks (Mediaworld’s Channel and  InfoFlash) and CBS Outdoor will bring their commercial might and sales force to the table. […]

San Francisco-based mobile audience media company JiWire, has enticed David Courtney to join the company as CEO where he will work closely with Kevin McKenzie, JiWire’s founder and president, to continue to accelerate the firm’s growth and to expand its leadership position in the U.S. and overseas. McKenzie selected Courtney based on his proven track […]